The fire in the distance burned for three days. It was the Kurds who were looting. They looted all the Turks, whether they were rich or poor, and no one could escape their looting.

Turkic women were tied into strings with ropes and taken away in groups. As trophies, these women could be sold in the human market. In the Middle East, human trafficking has a long history. It is said that it has existed for as long as the prophets.

The Turkic men were pressed on the guillotine, and their heads rolled around after being stabbed. The thick white teeth were gnawing at the soil crazily on the ground, which looked very strange. Unfortunately, they stopped moving after a few blows, and many children were not satisfied with it.

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But it doesn't matter, there are a lot of Turks, just pull one over and kill them. Seeing the children happy, it doesn't matter if you put in some effort.

All the children had their pants taken off, and only the girls were spared. There was a large pit for burning corpses on the roadside, which was filled with wood and kerosene. At the beginning, they were still filling it with firewood, but now there is no need to use a lot of it.

Human oil is the best fuel.

The Turks are very fat and have no shortage of fuel.

A woman walked over with a baby in her arms, and the arrogant Kurds pulled her over. He snatched the swaddling clothes from his hand, opened it and looked at it. Then he threw the baby into the fire, killing all the Turkic babies.

Can't stay in this world.

"Child!" With a tragic cry, the woman threw herself towards the fire, but was caught by several Kurds.

They took off the women's clothes on the roadside and tied them to a barrel. The women were like donkeys, being patronized by one big man after another.

When the woman was dying, she was pushed directly into the fire pit with the barrel.

The fire only dimmed a little for a moment, and then burned even hotter.

There were tears in Kuopulu's eyes. He regretted it! He regretted not being more cruel to these Kurds. If all these Kurds had been killed, the Turks would not have suffered such killings.

But there is no point in regretting. It is not the same as before. Outside the city, besides the Indians, there are also their masters, the Ming people. Without the support of the Ming people, the Indians will be beaten by Kuopulu within two hours.

The remnants of the army were trampled into a pulp.

Countless Turks are suffering, but there is nothing they can do. Kuopulu has some suicidal thoughts. But as soon as this thought arises, he has to suppress it.

There are still 70,000 remnant troops in the city. These are the only remaining seeds of the Turks. As long as these troops are preserved, the Turks will have a chance to stand up in the future.

But the question is, can it be saved?

Kopululu had no choice but to stay in the isolated city and wait for rescue. The messenger pigeons were released one after another, and the damn Kurds were flying hawks outside the city.

God knows whether his blood letter will be seen by the Sultan, but there is a high probability that it will not be seen. The eagle hovering in the sky is the best weapon against homing pigeons, and pigeons are not as powerful as hawks anyway.

Information within the city cannot get out, and information from outside the city cannot come in. Kuopulu feels like he has been abandoned by this world!

In fact, he has also been abandoned, and Constantinople cannot provide him with any assistance, because... Constantinople is also unable to protect itself now.

Suleiman II watched sadly as one of his envoys was blown away by cannonballs or shot into pieces by double 25 rapid-fire cannons.

The people of Ming Dynasty refused to negotiate and refused any intention of dialogue. Their attitude was very clear, which can be summed up in three words: no negotiation!

Since there is no need to talk, let’s fight!

Under the call of Suleiman II, all Turks in Constantinople prepared to carry out holy war. They would use their own blood and lives in exchange for the retreat of the invaders.

However... Suleiman II failed again. No one is prepared to fight you. The Ming soldiers outside the city wait leisurely in the trenches all day long. As long as someone runs out, they will kill them. If no one runs out, they will never do it.

The meeting will take one step forward.

Someone began to place mines around Constantinople. People who sneaked out at night to escape would always step on one or two mines.

After a slight explosion, only miserable wails were left. If there were enough people wailling, the sound would have penetrating power. It would float against the ground like wind, drifting here and there.

Some people were crying, some were shouting, and some were cursing. It was like mosquitoes were humming, and it was like earthworms were singing.

The Turks were listening at the top of the city, listening quietly.

When the sun rises the next day, you will see the bodies lying in the fields outside the city.

The crows circled down one after another, and then slowly approached. Some people were still alive when they were pecked, but they were unable to resist.

The number of animals at the dinner gradually increased, including gray voles, foxes with bright fur, and wolves with big tails hanging down.

The huge vultures will stir up a cloud of dust when they fall down. Relying on their huge size, they can occupy the most advantageous position and start their feasting journey.

Those captured Turks would be forced back with guns. If they did not go, they would be shot immediately. Then the bodies would be dragged by several Romanians to the front of the two armies, waiting to be killed by voles, wolves, foxes,

Crows and vultures eat it.

Come naked and leave naked without taking away a trace of cloud. In half a month, a lot of bones have been piled up under the city.

Nature is the best scavenger and can digest everything, not to mention human skin.

The Turks on the city wall can still only watch, there is nothing they can do. They can only watch, maybe one day, they will become one of those piles of bones.

Who knows!

Li Xiao stood in the airship and looked at Constantinople below. Two months had passed and the Turks in Ankara had begged to surrender eight times, but Li Xiao still did not agree.

Only by defeating the Ottoman Empire can countless small countries grow on the body of this empire. It will take many, many years for them to produce a peerless overlord who can lead them to reunite this land.

This process may take ten or twenty years, or it may take one hundred or two hundred years. The most conservative statement is what Zhu Yuanzhang said, in five hundred years a king will rise, and his rise and fall will come suddenly!

There is only one way to completely defeat the Ottoman Empire, which is to destroy the Turks. Of course, massacre can complete this task faster and more efficiently.

But Li Xiao knew that massacre of the city would not solve the problem. Because no matter how severe the massacre was, there would always be survivors who escaped the massacre and survived.

The descendants of the Turks will look at the Ming Dynasty with hatred, and they feel uncomfortable being hated by these people. They will retaliate in the most extreme way. For example, a woman wearing a loose robe walking on the street, when the crowd is dense enough,

They will detonate their own bombs.

The best weapon in the world is actually hunger. There are at least two million people in Constantinople. To feed so many people, the amount of food consumed every day is staggering.

Li Xiao did not believe that Suleiman II could save enough food to feed millions of people for one or two years.

It is said that cannibalism has begun in the city of Akara, and Li Xiao believes that it will not be long before they are all eaten by his own people. Anyway, as long as they are surrounded and the people inside are not allowed to escape, the goal will be achieved.

In terms of annihilating the Turks, various "minorities" in the Ottoman Empire erupted with great enthusiasm. They participated in the work of annihilating the Turks with unimaginable enthusiasm.

They hunted scattered Turks everywhere in cities, villages, and even pastures. As long as they caught the heads, they would kill them with a knife. Because every Turk man's head could be exchanged for a Turk woman.

Although the Turkic women who were awarded the prize were all defective products, it was not bad for a woman to get her back and serve her wife during the day and herself at night. At least if there were multiple workers in the family, they could sell them to the market for money when they got tired of it.

Turkic women are worthless now, but they can be sold for one or two Ming Dynasty silver coins.

A person cannot be rich without external wealth, so this can be regarded as a piece of external wealth.

Li Xiao just made them all executioners, so that hatred can be confined in the Middle East. The remaining Turks will hate everything here. Even if they rise again in the future, they will be the first to attack their neighbors, rather than retaliate thousands of miles away.

The Ming Dynasty outside.

Fighting in a trapped city is boring, just waiting every day. Waiting for the people in the city to finish eating the food, and then come out and be beaten to death, or starve to death.

Li Xiao took this opportunity to take a good look at this country located at the junction of the Eurasian continent.

First of all, it is mountainous. On the way to Ankara, Li Xiao saw continuous mountains. Ankara is almost located in the basin, which is somewhat similar to Chengdu.

Adana is a very important choke point, through which you can enter the Eastern Province. Most of these so-called Eastern Provinces are populated by Arabs, Yazidis, Persians, Syrians, etc. Turks

People are guests here, and there are only a few of them, and now they are in a precarious state.

The Eastern Mediterranean was originally very peaceful. A large amount of maritime trade went directly to Rotterdam or Spain, bypassing the African coast. Only those small ships would dock in Arab territory.

Then they endured the exploitation by the Sudanese and were sold to Europe.

The discovery of the American continent made Europeans rich for two hundred years. They gathered a lot of wealth, and they couldn't put it down for the trade goods from the East.

As a result, a large amount of silver flowed from Europe to the Ming Dynasty through trade. However, Europe could export very few goods to the Ming Dynasty, which resulted in a large number of ships returning empty ships. This was very inconsistent with economic principles, so Europe

The merchants began to look for some goods that the Ming Dynasty needed.

Soon, the Europeans discovered another commodity that the Ming Dynasty needed very much.

people!

There was no shortage of labor in the Ming Dynasty, but there was a shortage of slaves. Black people with strong physiques were very popular with slave owners in the Ming Dynasty. Mining disasters continued in the mines, and it was said that sometimes hundreds of people died at one time.

Every day, corpses are taken out and burned, and the ashes are poured into the ground to be used as fertilizer. In order to achieve the purpose of making the best use of people!

The Ming Dynasty's economy needed to develop, and it was inseparable from various minerals, especially coal. Since foreign slaves were working, the concept of safe production was out of the question.

As long as enough coal can be dug out, no one cares about the life and death of those foreign slaves. If a batch of them die, they can just buy another batch from Quanzhou. It doesn't take much effort, the price of one person is only one or two Ming Dynasty silver coins.

You should know that a mule can be sold for ten or eight silver coins.

Because of their huge number, slaves were not very valuable in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiao discovered a phenomenon, that is, the Ming Dynasty silver coins are now becoming a common currency. Originally, this thing has been circulated throughout Southeast Asia and India. For this reason, the Ming Dynasty also established three new currency foundries.

The 10,000-ton hydraulic press is constantly pressing out new Ming Dynasty silver coins. Because of the unique nickel plating process and the emergence of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, it is extremely difficult to forge the Ming Dynasty silver coins. So far, no one has been found to have successfully forged them.

Because the Ming Dynasty used fixed-denomination currency, it was far better than the messy currencies abroad. It was also beautifully made, with exquisite workmanship and not easily damaged.

And its scope of use is so wide that almost all countries in the Middle East are using it.

In addition, the current national power of the Ming Dynasty is at its peak, which has further strengthened the currency credit. More and more countries have begun to use the silver coins and copper coins of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in Southeast Asian countries, Ming Dynasty checks have become popular.

Unknowingly, as the Ming Dynasty's troops moved to the west, the Ming Dynasty's currency also expanded overseas. This was something Li Xiao did not expect. Perhaps it was an additional product of military aggression.

Thinking about this, Li Xiao felt so happy that his nose was bubbling. What a great opportunity. In the future, as long as the Ming Dynasty makes these exquisite small metal pieces, it will be able to exchange for various things from all over the world.

This kind of plunder is much better than war plunder.

Shi Dewei has already led people to drill oil wells in Iraq, and Li Xiao believes that it will not take long for the oil well to be drilled.

There was nothing they could do, but the prophet of the Arabs blessed them. Under their feet, there were countless black treasures. As long as the treasures were not extracted for a day, they could make huge profits from them.

Of course, today's profits belong to Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiao has issued a decree that only Ming people have the right to develop oil wells. Others who develop oil fields will be thrown directly into the Red Sea to feed the fish.

Stewie established a special law enforcement team to guard the chiefs who did not know what the oil fields meant.

At the same time, Ming Dynasty's domestic shipyards are producing a ship specially used to pull oil, and a large oil refinery is also being built in Jeju Island.

This is the island that Li Xiao obtained from the King of Korea. All the Koreans on the island moved back to the Korean mainland. In the future, this will be the oil refining base of the Ming Dynasty. The oil produced can be supplied to Liaodong, Jingcheng, Tianjin, Shandong, etc.

Waiting place.

At present, the only things that use oil in the Ming Dynasty are airships. I believe that it will not be long before ships running on the sea will also use oil.
Chapter completed!